Re: "People who installed X also have packages Y, Z and T installed"
Hi,
On Wed Mar 07, 2007 at 04:45:07 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> On 2007-03-03, Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org> wrote:
> > So far I've seen two causes for bad suggestions:
> >
> > 1) Suggestions for a package that is too popular tend to be
> > meaningless: this is because when I query Xapian with, for example,
> > "please give me 20 typical systems that have 'grep' installed", I
> > get random systems as all systems have grep installed.
> > This *might* be detectable looking at the Xapian's relevance
> > estimate, which I'd expect to be low in cases like this.
>
> Is your code available? I'd like to have a look at what your doing and
> see if I can think of a way to avoid this problem.
See Enricos blog for more details:
http://www.enricozini.org//2007/debtags/suggestions-gz.html
Greetings
Martin
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